Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has assured Nigerians that the Federal Government had no plan to increase fuel prices. “We are certainly not expecting to increase oil (fuel) prices at all; the government has absolutely no intention of increasing fuel prices and that’s it,” Osinbajo visited Oando and Total depots in Apapa and reassured Nigerians that the present administration was working ...
December, 2017
October, 2017
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13 October
Osinbajo clarifies stand on $25bn scam: I approved NNPC loans, not contracts
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday clarified that what he approved for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation when President Muhammadu Buhari was away on medical vacation were financing loans and not contracts. According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, the Vice-President made the clarification while answering reporters’ questions after the groundbreaking ceremony ...
July, 2017
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1 July
FG uncovers 60,000 ghost workers,says Osinbajo
No fewer than 60,000 ghost workers have been uncovered by the Federal Government since the introduction of the bank verification number (BVN), according to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo. Osinbajo was giving an update on government’s war on corruption at the 5th Annual Christopher Kolade Lecture on Business Integrity in Lagos on Thursday night. This is almost twice the 33,000 figure ...